The 2009-2010 Broadway Across America/Boston Season is now official, and there really is something special for every type of theatre fan. All shows will be either at The Colonial Theatre or Opera House. There’ll be lots of time to talk about the shows in the coming months, but first let’s get them out there (with [...]
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21st Century Breakdown: Green Day Gives Us A Soundtrack For The Summer
May 21, 2009
Just to cement my standing of being a tributary along the pop culture mainstream, I don’t have a thing to say about last night’s celebrated American Idol finale (a yawn and a scratch doesn’t count). I’d rather check in on a more ambitious and less manufactured development in the music world: the return of Green [...]
Boston’s “Spring Awakening” Keeps All Its Promises
May 4, 2009
Spring can be such a fickle season in New England. The glorious warmth and sunshine of one day, pushed out by bone chilling rain the next. There is no such inconsistency with the national tour of the musical “Spring Awakening” as it opens its first Boston run at The Colonial Theatre. It is thrilling, brave, [...]
In Defense Of HvZ
April 28, 2009
When the weapons are Nerf guns, pool noodles and socks, I say … Game On!
So, the hot game on college campuses right now is Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) … a ramped up game of tag with a story line straight out of “Night Of The Living Dead.”
Childish? Maybe.
Silly? A bit.
A creative way of blowing off [...]
Spring Awakening: Rock That Leads To Talk
April 23, 2009
“Is this it?”
“This can’t be it!”
The confused and rebellious teens of the Tony Award winning “Spring Awakening” belt out these lyrics with a combination of horror and dead pan bemusement. A contradiction that perfectly matches a rock musical set in an 1890’s German village. These kids are about to become adults, but they have no [...]
Dame Edna: Hub Gets Royal Treatment From Queen Of Quips
April 17, 2009
Rodgers and Hammerstein got it right in “South Pacific” all those years ago … there is nothing like a dame. Especially when the lady in question is a purple-haired, cabaret queen who can launch a thousand quips in one giddy evening of old school comedy. This may be Marathon weekend in Boston, but Dame Edna Everage is turning [...]
When Talent Triumphs: Singer Susan Boyle Stuns Even Simon
April 15, 2009
She’s from a small village in Scotland.
She’s in her late forties, and admits she’s never been kissed.
Her cat, “Pebbles” is the closest thing she has to a significant other.
And Susan Boyle just may be the breakout singing star of 2009!
She’s already done something many thought impossible … stunning Simon Cowell into silence with the power [...]
Lost: The Seasoning Of Sawyer
April 8, 2009
According to the nickname generator on the Lost website, Sawyer would call me “El Docko” if we spent some time on the island together. El Docko?! Random … but I think I like it.
I’m liking Sawyer a lot more this season too … in fact, at this point he pretty much is Season V. What [...]
All That Chazz: Teller Outshines Tale In “Bronx”
April 2, 2009
Chazz Palminteri tells a story like an old school Italian chef builds a lasagna … layer upon lovingly crafted layer. Of course ingredients play a key role too, and in the case of “A Bronx Tale” it sometimes feels like a little store brand ricotta got slipped in. It’s still plenty tasty, but not quite [...]
Driven To The Brink: Art Of The Automobile Also At Stake In Big 3 Crisis
March 31, 2009
I’m a car guy. They’re much more to me than just transportation … they are freedom, inspiration, mechanical alchemy and art. The shape, the lines, the power, the fit and finish … when these elements come together for me it’s like hearing a great rock song, or seeing a terrific piece of live theater, or [...]
